Mistakes....until they aren't?
Right. I was very pleased to win this game, but when I analyse it I see that it was honestly....quite bad lol. My current rapid elo is under 600. I feel like it should be 800-900 or possibly over 1k. I think my biggest problem right now is identifying tactics. Not sure how to remedy that besides just spamming puzzles, but that seems boring and not effective.
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In this game I legitimately was making mistakes and thought I would lose. Right around this position on move 18 I begin to see a checkmate possibility that I begin to work towards. I finally succeed and checkmate on move 23. My question is, every single move that I made was to try to balance working towards this mate while not getting destroyed. Was my opponent just that awful or was I just lucky, or both? Because the engine is showing nearly every move I make as a mistake, miss, or blunder....until it isn't. I posted the full game below the checkmate plan.